Aristarchos of Samos the Polymath

About the Book

Of all the giants on whose shoulders we stand, Aristarchos of Samos, the ancient Greek all-rounder, has proved to be especially tall: no one else (not even Einstein, to mention an iconic figure) has ever discovered anything (of like importance) that took so long to dawn on the rest of humanity. His achievement was extraordinary: with nothing more than the naked eye and the mind of a genius, he got to know the Sun’s distance better than anyone else before, and he put the Earth in motion around the Sun for the first time in human awareness. The present book examines what history has spared of him and invites the reader to relive astronomy’s finest hour.

About the Author

Alberto Gomez, born in 1968, studied Music and Humanities at the University of Santander in Spain, receiving a Special Award to Academic Achievement on his graduation in 1990. He also holds a MA in Education from the OU of Milton Keynes.